1. NFB StopMo Studio

National Film Board of Canada

It’s a fact that stop-motion videos were some of the coolest you ever saw as a child. But recreating the miraculous technique of animating inanimate objects by taking individual photos of a scene that changes in tiny increments was not so cool. While your patience has dwindled over the years, technology has kept apace. The StopMo Studio app, created by the National Film Board of Canada, teaches you the basics of stop-motion animation and provides a fun, simple tool to help you create your own with ease. It features sound editing, mixing board, sound effects library and a load more. It’s a genuinely powerful piece of software that makes filmmaking alarmingly easy and a great collaborative app for fathers and sons.